Pirate Bay co-founder transferred to Sweden after deportation

As anticipated, Pirate Bay co-founder Gottfrid Swartholm Warg has been deported from Cambodia and sent back to his native Sweden, where he will face copyright infringement penalties as well as hacking charges.

"He has now been transferred to Sweden and it looks like he's being charged with a major hack against the Swedish government that was done earlier this year," The Pirate Bay wrote in a note on its Facebook page. "Besides his 1 year prison sentence and $10M fine for founding The Pirate Bay."

In April 2009, Warg and his Pirate Bay cohorts were found guilty of copyright infringement, sentenced to one year in prison, and hit with fines of about 32 million SEK (£3 million). A year and a half later, a Swedish appeals court upheld the convictions of three of the men but Warg was left out of proceedings due to illness. Earlier this year, Sweden's Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal from the founders.

In its Facebook message, The Pirate Bay reminded followers, "he is not guilty, until proven otherwise," when it comes to the most recent hacking charge. According to the AP, that involved an attack on data related to the Swedish tax authority.

The Pirate Bay said Warg, also known as Anakata online, is not accepting any donations since "he refuses to pay."

"All donation drives that you see are fake, unless from us," The Pirate Bay said.

In other Pirate Bay news, meanwhile, Torrent Freak reported that Google has added two more Pirate Bay URLs to its search blacklist. In recent weeks, thepiratebay.org and thepiratebay.se have stopped up on Google auto-complete when using the search engine.

Google did not immediately respond to a request for comment but the company started censoring auto-complete results for piracy-related sites back in January 2011 - including BitTorrent, torrent, utorrent, RapidShare, and Megaupload. Last month, meanwhile, the company announced that it would demote sites with a "high number" of copyright complaints.